Water-supplying device for locomotive-tenders.



N. T. McKEE.

WATER SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR LOCOMOTIVE TENDERS. APPLICATION FILED APR.2|. 191s.

1,21 5,953. Patented Feb. 13, 191.7.

lNl/EA/ TOR M541. I MSW/5 A TTOR/VE Y NEAL TRIIVIBLE MU'KEE, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO LOCOIVIOTIVE SUPER- I-IEATER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. 1 A GGRPOBATION OFDELAWARE.

WATER-SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR LOCOMOTIVE-TENDERS.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, rear.

Application filed April 21, 1916. Serial No. 92,801.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEAL TRIMBLE MoKEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yonkers, Vestchester county, State of New- York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Supplying Devices for Locomotive-Tenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for supplying water toa locomotive tender by use of a track scoop attached thereto and a water trough or pan extending between the rails. The object of my invention is to provide imroved devices attached to the tender and Cisposed in such a relation with reference to the scoop and to the water trough that the splashing and loss of water with their consequent disadvantages, attendant upon many of the arrangements of track scoop and water trough now in general use, are largely done away with.

My invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 represents a central longitudinal section, part elevation, of a locomotive tender equipped with my invention as used in connection with a water trough of usual type; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but on a larger scale, showing the scoop with my improvements in detail; and Fig. 3 is a view of Fig. 2 taken from the right.

In the drawings, the tender comprises a covered water tank 1 of usual type provided with a water supply pipe 2 extending through the tank from a point below its bot- I tom and opening into the cover of the tank at 3. The track scoop 4c, of usual form with open top, is pivotally attached to pipe 2 at 5.

The water trough 6 is of the usual type with vertical sides and extends for any preferred distance along the track between the rails.

A pair of parallel and rectangular sheet iron plates 7 are fixed to the bottom of the tender, one on each side of the scoop, and extend downwardly to within a short distance of the water level in the water trough.

Pivotally attached at 8 to the rear end of each plate 7, is a triangularly shaped extension plate 9 which extends forwardly nearly to the end of plate 7, broadening as it goes.

Links 10 and 11 on each side respectively connect the scoop 4: and extension plates 9 with one arm 12 of a bell crank lever, the

other arm of which is attached to a piston rod operated by an air cylinder 13 in the usual way.

In operating the improved water supplying device of my invention, if the piston of air cylinder 13 be moved to the right, then arm 12 will be depressed and the scoop l lowered below the water level of the track tank so as to take up water as the tender advances and force it through pipe 2 into tank 1. Simultaneously with the lowering of the scoop the lateral plates 9 will also be lowered below the water level in the trough, these plates 9 constituting virtual extendsions of the larger and upper fixed plates 7. As the tender advances, therefore, the plates 7 and pivoted extension plates 9 constitute in effect a pair of auxiliary walls between the vertical side walls of the trough and the scoop. These walls being thin and being disposed parallel to the direction of motion of the tender, offer practically no resistance to the movement of said tender.

While I prefer that the lateral plates 9 shall always dip below thewater level when the scoop is taking up water this is not really essential in practice; if the plates dip below the maximum high water level of the trough the operation of my invention will be quite satisfactory even though the plates may not extend down to the water surface when its level is low.

As the tender advances, particularly at high speed, the scoop will tend to build up or form a mass of water in front of it which will be carried along with the scoop. Ordinarily this would result in considerable water being thrown out laterally beyond the walls of the trough and upon the roadbed. This is not only a matter of substantial financial loss in many places but also causes rotting and disintegration of roadbed. while,

in the winter time, this water freezes on the sides of the trough and in the switches upon which it may be thrown and often requires the constant services of a number of men to keep the track clear and the switches operating. With my invention, however, the water when thrown laterally impinges upon the plates 9 and 7 and is retained between said plates so as to fall quietly to the rear and back into the trough.

The portions of plates 7 which extend laterally forward of the scoop Wlll catch My invention may be easily and cheaply 1 applied to locomotives equipped with the usual track scoop the required additional parts being few, simple and inexpensive and the labor needed to attach these parts being of the simplest.

Having described my invention,I claim 1'. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with a lon gitudinally extending water trough and a tender carrying a scoop adapted to cooperate with said trough, of a pair of laterally disposed plates, one on each side of the scoop, attached to the tender and extending below the water level in the trough.

2. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with a longitudinally extending water trough and a tender carrying a scoop adapted to cooperate with said trough, of a pair of laterally disposed plates, one on each side of the scoop, attached to the tender and means for either lifting said plates "above or extending them below the water level in the trough at will.

3. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with a longitudinally extending water trough and a tender carrying a scoop adapted to cooperate with Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents,

said trough, of a pair of laterally disposed fixed plates, one on each side of the scoop, attached to the tender and ending above the water level in the trough, and an extension plate movably attached to the bottom of each aforesaid fixed plate and adapted to be lowered so as to have its lower edge extend below the water level in the trough.

4:. In a water supplying device for 1000- motive tenders, the'combination with a longitudinally extending water trough and a tender carrying a scoop adapted to cooperate with said trough, of a pair of laterally disposed fixed plates, one on each side of the scoop, attached to the tender and ending above the water level in the trough, and an extension plate pivotally attached at one end to an end of each fixed plate and adapted to be lowered below or raised above the water level in the trough at will.

5. In a water supplying device for locomotive tenders, the combination with a longitudinally extending water trough and a tender carrying a pivotally attached scoop,

of a pair of laterally disposed plates, one

on each side of the scoop, fixed to the tender and ending above the water level of the trough, an extension plate movably attached to the bottom of each fixed plate and adapted to be lowered or raised with reference thereto, and means attached to both scoop and extension plates for raising or lowering them simultaneously.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

NEAL TRIMBLE MoKEE.

Washington, D. G. 

